Fiction
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This type of character is multi-dimensional and layered. They are complex with many traits and a developed backstory.
What is a round character?
This type of transitions features a single subject in a distinct progression, such as a car speeding then crashing into a tree, or a baseball player readying his bat then swinging
What are action-to-action transitions?
A type of poem in which the speaker expresses personal feelings or sentiments
What is lyric?
In "The Elephants," the speaker's brother describes his hands as this
What are "little Frankensteins"?
This literary device is characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces, providing tension in any story and is used to drive the narrative forward.
What is narrative conflict?
This perspective is defined by the narrator looking back at past events from the future, such as in "If You Knew Then What I Know Now"
What is retrospective?
Through the imaginative act of narrating, this poetic form amplifies or expands the meaning of the artwork it describes.
What is ekphrasis?
This was the last secret Shoba told Shukumar
What is that she was moving out?
text time = story time
What is scene?
Not just something students write for college assignments – writers of this form of creative nonfiction often use personal experiences as an entry point to reflect on a particular topic
What is the essay?
Daily Double: Describe the difference between essay and memoir
This poetic form, most easily identified by its 14-line structure and variable rhyme scheme, is often used to express feelings of love or desire.
What is a sonnet?
Dene Oxedene discovers his passion for storytelling through film from his late uncle, who is later revealed to have helped this character make their regalia
Who is Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield
What is an integral setting?
Words are a non-pictorial example of this; appearance doesn't affect their meaning, which is fixed and absolute because they represent invisible ideas.
What is an icon?
Daily Double: Give an example of a non-pictorial and pictorial icon.
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect
What is anaphora?
Lucia Perillo laments the loss of wildlife due to the Gulf War with a comparison to this epic hero
Who is Achilles?
Daily Double: What is the name of the friend who was slayed?
Unconventional structure, retellings, pieces that revise a current text, or that use point of view to break the forth wall are hallmarks of this "type" of literature
What is experimental fiction?
The phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole
What is closure?
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation
What is enjambment?
Alison Bechdel compares her father to this Fitzgerald character
Who is James Gatz?